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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No. 84.330B]
Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee
Program
AGENCY: Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education (OESE),
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice announcing application
deadline.
SUMMARY: Under the AP Test Fee
Program, we award grants to eligible
State educational agencies (SEAs) in
order to enable them to pay all or a
portion of advanced placement test fees
on behalf of eligible low-income
students who: (1) Are enrolled in an
advanced placement course; and (2)
plan to take an advanced placement
exam. The program is designed to
increase the number of low-income
students who take advanced placement
tests and receive scores for which
college academic credit is awarded. In
this notice we establish the deadline for
submission of the fiscal year (FY) 2007
AP Test Fee Program grant applications.
Applications Available: November 21,
2006.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: January 5, 2007.
Applications for grants under this
program must be submitted
electronically using the Grants.gov
apply site (Grants.gov). For information
(including dates and times) about how
to submit your application
electronically or by mail or hand
delivery if you qualify for an exception
to the electronic submission
requirement, please refer to the section
on Other Submission Requirements in
this notice.
We do not consider an application
that does not comply with the deadline
requirements.
Deadline for intergovernmental
review: March 6, 2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Who Is Eligible for an Award Under the
AP Test Fee Program?
Eligible applicants under the AP Test
Fee Program are: SEAs in any State,
including the District of Columbia, the
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
United States Virgin Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands, and the
freely associated states of the Republic
of the Marshall Islands, the Federated
States of Micronesia, and the Republic
of Palau.
Note: For purposes of this program, the
Bureau of Indian Affairs is treated as an SEA.
Note: Current grantees under this program
that expect to have sufficient carryover funds
to cover FY 2007 exam fees for eligible low-
income students should not apply for a new
award under this competition. Applicants
requesting new awards for FY 2007 must
submit an application to the Department of
Education electronically by the deadline
established in this notice.
Funding and Award Information
Estimated Available Funds: The
Administration has requested
$122,175,000 for the AP Test Fee and
Advanced Placement Incentive (API)
programs for FY 2007. Of the requested
amount, approximately $12 million
would be required to fully fund
applications for the AP Test Fee
program. The remaining funds would
support API grants. The actual level of
funding, if any, depends on final
congressional action. However, we are
inviting applications to allow enough
time to complete the grant process if
Congress appropriates funds for this
program.
Estimated Range of Awards: $15,000–
$500,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$171,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 34.
Project Period: 12 months.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
Statutory Funding Requirement: In
accordance with section 1703 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), the
Department gives priority to
applications submitted under this
competition over applications submitted
under the API program competition
(CFDA No. 84.330C).
Award Basis: The Department intends
to fund, at some level, all applications
that meet the minimum Requirements
for Approval of Application as
described in the application package for
this competition and that demonstrate
need for new or additional funds for FY
2007. Also, in determining whether to
approve an application for a new award
(including the amount of the award)
from an applicant with a current grant
under the program, the Department will
consider the amount of any carryover
funds under the existing grant.
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Other Submission Requirements:
Applications for grants under this
program must be submitted
electronically unless you qualify for an
exception to this requirement in
accordance with the instructions in this
section.
a. Electronic Submission of
Applications
Applications for grants under the
Advanced Placement Test Fee
Program—CFDA Number 84.330B must
be submitted electronically using the
Governmentwide Grants.gov appply site
at: http://www.grants.gov. Through this
site, you will be able to download a
copy of the application package,
complete it offline, and then upload and
submit your application. You may not e-
mail an electronic copy of a grant
application to us.
We will reject your application if you
submit it in paper format unless, as
described elsewhere in this section, you
qualify for one of the exceptions to the
electronic submission requirement and
submit, no later than two weeks before
the application deadline date, a written
statement to the Department that you
qualify for one of these exceptions.
Further information regarding
calculation of the date that is two weeks
before the application deadline date is
provided later in this section under
Exception to Electronic Submission
Requirement.
You may access the electronic grant
application for the Advanced Placement
Test Fee Program at: http://
www.grants.gov. You must search for
the downloadable application package
for this program by the CFDA number.
Do not include the CFDA number’s
alpha suffix in your search (e.g., search
for 84.330, not 84.330B).
Please note the following:
• When you enter the Grants.gov site,
you will find information about
submitting an application electronically
through the site, as well as the hours of
operation.
• Applications received by Grants.gov
are time and date stamped. Your
application must be fully uploaded and
submitted, and must be date/time
stamped by the Grants.gov system no
later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC
time, on the application deadline date.
Except as otherwise noted in this
section, we will not consider your
application if it is date/time stamped by
the Grants.gov system later than 4:30
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date. When we
retrieve your application from
Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are
rejecting your application because it
was date/time stamped by the
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Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date.
• The amount of time it can take to
upload an application will vary
depending on a variety of factors
including the size of the application and
the speed of your Internet connection.
Therefore, we strongly recommend that
you do not wait until the application
deadline date to begin the submission
process through Grants.gov.
• You should review and follow the
Education Submission Procedures for
submitting an application through
Grants.gov that are included in the
application package for this program to
ensure that you submit your application
in a timely manner to the Grants.gov
system. You can also find the Education
Submission Procedures pertaining to
Grants.gov at http://e-Grants.ed.gov/
help/
GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf.
• To submit your application via
Grants.gov, you must complete all of the
steps in the Grants.gov registration
process (see http://www.grants.gov/
applicants/get_registered.jsp). These
steps include (1) registering your
organization, a multi-part process that
includes registration with the Central
Contractor Registry (CCR); (2) registering
yourself as an Authorized Organization
Representative (AOR); and (3) getting
authorized as an AOR by your
organization. Details on these steps are
outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step
Registration Guide (see http://
www.grants.gov/section910/
Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf).
You also must provide on your
application the same D–U–N–S Number
used with this registration. Please note
that the registration process may take
five or more business days to complete,
and you must have completed all
registration steps to allow you to
successfully submit an application via
Grants.gov. In addition, you will need to
update your CCR registration on an
annual basis. This may take three or
more business days to complete.
• You will not receive additional
point value because you submit your
application in electronic format, nor
will we penalize you if you qualify for
an exception to the electronic
submission requirement, as described
elsewhere in this section, and submit
your application in paper format.
• You must submit all documents
electronically, including all information
typically included on the following
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forms: Application for Federal
Assistance (SF 424), the Department of
Education Supplemental Information for
SF 424, Budget Information—Non-
Construction Programs (ED 524), and all
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necessary assurances and certifications.
Please note that two of these forms—the
SF 424 and the Department of Education
Supplemental Information for SF 424—
have replaced the ED 424 (Application
for Federal Education Assistance).
You must attach any narrative
sections of your application as files in
a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich text), or
.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you
upload a file type other than the three
file types specified above or submit a
password protected file, we will not
review that material.
• Your electronic application must
comply with any page limit
requirements described in this notice.
• After you electronically submit
your application, you will receive from
Grants.gov an automatic notification of
receipt that contains a Grants.gov
tracking number. (This notification
indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not
receipt by the Department.) The
Department will then retrieve your
application from Grants.gov and send to
you by e-mail a second notification that
indicates that the Department has
received your application and has
assigned your application a PR/Award
number (an ED-specified identifying
number unique to your application).
• We may request that you provide us
original signatures on forms at a later
date. Application Deadline Date
Extension in Case of Technical Issues
with the Grants.gov System: If you are
experiencing problems submitting your
application through Grants.gov, please
contact the Grants.gov Support Desk at
1–800–518–4726. You must obtain a
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number
and must keep a record of it.
If you are prevented from
electronically submitting your
application on the application deadline
date because of technical problems with
the Grants.gov system, we will grant you
an extension until 4:30 p.m.,
Washington, DC time, the following
business day to enable you to transmit
your application electronically, or by
hand delivery. You also may mail your
application by following the mailing
instructions as described elsewhere in
this notice. If you submit an application
after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on
the deadline date, please contact the
person listed elsewhere in this notice
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT, and provide an explanation of
the technical problem you experienced
with Grants.gov, along with the
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number.
We will accept your application if we
can confirm that a technical problem
occurred with the Grants.gov system
and that that problem affected your
ability to submit your application by
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4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the
application deadline date. The
Department will contact you after a
determination is made on whether your
application will be accepted.
Note: Extensions referred to in this section
apply only to the unavailability of or
technical problems with the Grants.gov
system. We will not grant you an extension
if you failed to fully register to submit your
application to Grants.gov before the deadline
date and time or if the technical problem you
experienced is unrelated to the Grants.gov
system.
Exception to Electronic Submission
Requirement: You qualify for an
exception to the electronic submission
requirement, and may submit your
application in paper format, if you are
unable to submit an application through
the Grants.gov system because—
• You do not have access to the
Internet; or
• You do not have the capacity to
upload large documents to the
Grants.gov system;
and
• No later than two weeks before the
application deadline date (14 calendar
days or, if the fourteenth calendar day
before the application deadline date
falls on a Federal holiday, the next
business day following the Federal
holiday), you mail or fax a written
statement to the Department, explaining
which of the two grounds for an
exception prevent you from using the
Internet to submit your application. If
you mail your written statement to the
Department, it must be postmarked no
later than two weeks before the
application deadline date. If you fax
your written statement to the
Department, we must receive the faxed
statement no later than two weeks
before the application deadline date.
Address and mail or fax your
statement to: Ms. Lynyetta Johnson, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue, SW., room 3C151, Washington,
DC 20202–6200. FAX: (202) 205–4921.
Your paper application must be
submitted in accordance with the mail
or hand delivery instructions described
in this notice.
b. Submission of Paper Applications by
Mail
If you qualify for an exception to the
electronic submission requirement, you
may mail (through the U.S. Postal
Service or a commercial carrier), your
application to the Department. You
must mail the original and two copies
of your application, on or before the
application deadline date, to the
Department at the applicable following
address:
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By mail through the U.S. Postal Service:
U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center,
Attention: (CFDA Number 84.330B),
400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202–4260
or
By mail through a commercial carrier:
U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center—Stop
4260, Attention: (CFDA Number
84.330B), 7100 Old Landover Road,
Landover, MD 20785–1506
Regardless of which address you use,
you must show proof of mailing
consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service
postmark,
(2) A legible mail receipt with the
date of mailing stamped by the U.S.
Postal Service,
(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or
receipt from a commercial carrier, or
(4) Any other proof of mailing
acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Education.
If you mail your application through
the U.S. Postal Service, we do not
accept either of the following as proof
of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark, or
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by
the U.S. Postal Service.
If your application is postmarked after
the application deadline date, we will
not consider your application.
Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not
uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before
relying on this method, you should check
with your local post office.
c. Submission of Paper Applications by
Hand Delivery.
If you qualify for an exception to the
electronic submission requirement, you
(or a courier service) may deliver your
paper application to the Department by
hand. You must deliver the original and
two copies of your application by hand,
on or before the application deadline
date, to the Department at the following
address: U.S. Department of Education,
Application Control Center, Attention:
(CFDA Number 84.330B), 550 12th
Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center
Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260.
The Application Control Center
accepts hand deliveries daily between 8
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC
time, except Saturdays, Sundays and
Federal holidays.
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Applications: If you mail or hand deliver
your application to the Department:
(1) You must indicate on the envelope
and—if not provided by the Department—in
Item 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA number—
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under which you are submitting your
application.
(2) The Application Control Center will
mail a grant application receipt
acknowledgment to you. If you do not receive
the grant application receipt
acknowledgment within 15 business days
from the application deadline date, you
should call the U.S. Department of Education
Application Control Center at (202) 245–
6288.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Lynyetta Johnson, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202–6200.
Telephone: (202) 260–1990 or via
Internet:
advancedplacementprogram@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–
800–877–8339. Individuals with
disabilities may obtain this notice in an
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large
print, audiotape, or computer diskette)
on request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
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You may view this document, as well as
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To use PDF you must have Adobe
Acrobat Reader, which is available free
at this site. If you have questions about
using PDF, call the U.S. Government
Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–
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DC, area at (202) 512–1530.
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Access at: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6531–6537.
Dated: November 16, 2006.
Henry L. Johnson,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secondary Education.
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